The Word Down near the bottom of the crossed-out list of things you have to do today, between “green thread” and “broccoli,” you find that you have penciled “sunlight.” Resting on the page, the word is beautiful. It touches you...
Our Real Condition What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we...
From the great painter Claude Monet: "I tried to do the impossible - to paint the light itself." “Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see.” “All I did was to look at what the...
Triumph of being... What have I to fear? I am a part of infinity, I am a part of the all's great power, a lonely world inside millions of worlds, like a star of the first degree that fades last....
Spirit Horses Every breath taken in by the man who loves, and the woman who loves, goes to fill the water tank where the spirit horses drink. - Robert Bly - From: Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New...
A Pause in Our Song Someone in deep grief rings a bell in a field where no one can hear. It makes the birds pause in their song and the willows slouch a little closer to the ground. She just...
There is meaning, intrinsic meaning, in every moment.
